Top billed cast

1. 

   Taron Egerton

   Henk Rogers

2. 

   Nikita Efremov

   Alexey Pajitnov

3. 

   Sofia Lebedeva

   Sasha

4. 

   Anthony Boyle

   Kevin Maxwell

5. 

   Ben Miles

   Howard Lincoln

6. 

   Ken Yamamura

   Minoru Arakawa

7. 

   Igor Grabuzov

   Valentin Trifonov

8. 

   Oleg Stefan

   Belikov

9. 

   Ayane Nagabuchi

   Akemi Rogers

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-06-17

This starts off as quite a fun look at just how "Tetris" made it's way from being a cheap and cheerful game played in the Soviet Union into a handheld game selling and making millions across the globe. It seems it was all spotted by opportunist "Stein" (Toby Jones) who managed to get it to a games exhibition where it was then picked up by the tenacious "Hank" (an adequate Taron Egerton) who determines to make his fortune from this block-sliding game. What now ensues is quite a frantic and at times dangerous tale of licensing, sub-licensing, risky travel, corruption, bribery, the KGB and Robert...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• race against time
• video game
• nintendo
• cold war
• based on true story
• salesman
• copyright
• duringcreditsstinger
• 1980s
• russia
• urss
• communist regime
• international travel
• contract disputes
• game licensing
• intellectual property rights
• soviet bureaucracy
• kgb surveillance